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Old 03-07-2014, 11:58   #2323
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 2

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
Freeview is an open platform, it doesn't have the budget to make channels exclusive. However, if Channel 4 got a great deal then it might be viable for Channel 4 to make these channels available on Freeview but not on other platforms where it would have to bid for capacity against pay-TV broadcasters.
Which is sort of what I was hinting at, CH4 may have got the muxes dirt cheap for a while to make it worth their while.
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